The Arabic Hermes : from pagan sage to prophet of science
Livre imprimé - Bladel Kevin Thomas van, 2009
This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed...
Shaping science with rhetoric : the cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson
Livre imprimé - Ceccarelli Leah, 2001
Les Vérités de la science : pratique, récit, histoire : le cas Pasteur
Livre imprimé - Cadeddu Antonio, 2005
Most of the literature concerning Louis Pasteur is fundamentally hagiographic, distorted by myths and based on scientists’ uncritical accounts exalting his genius. Here...
An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense : a critical edition
Livre imprimé - Reid Thomas, Brookes Derek R., 2003
The volume contains an editor preface presenting the rasion d'être for the edition followed by an introduction giving the central argument of the Inquiry by means of an...
The World of mathematics : a small library of the literature of mathematics from A'h-mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein
Livre imprimé - Newman James R., 1956
Books and the sciences in history
Livre imprimé - Frasca-Spada Marina, Jardine Nicholas, 2000